The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-07-07
rs There no Balm i'm Gilead 2"


rs There no Balm i'm Gilead?"
To beguile the wealth-produccrs
into silence. as to the needed reforms
required for their welfare, the class
which profits from the misdirected
efforts Of the mass, TO better their
general condition. is always happy
when tee bulk of the votes of the coun-
~ are OIL false scent. False reasons
are given for the evils that inflict
society and the world. and the more
| persons whose attention can be d.
verified from the real causes, the safer
are those who profit by the wrongs
inflicted upon society. As the whal-
ers who have harpooned the monster
of the deep. when pursued. throw a
tub TO the whale" SO do the men who
have harpooned the people with
unjust laws. and false systems of fl
nance, and oppressive methods of
taxation. throw out TO the ones they
have wronged. outraged and robbed
under the forms Of law, some false
issues to divert public attention from
the real causes and authors Of their
misery.
Iowa. above most other states. has
been supremely cursed or blessed
with false teachers and leaders. Per
| sonal liberty, is the shibboleth Of
one party. Without stopping TO ques-
tion its value or Importance, we are
yet unable to discern how removing
the restrictions the law puts OH the
liquor traffic, is to remove the shack
els from the industrial slave who is
out of work for himself and is abso.
solutely depending upon Others for
the privilege of working hard, that
he may enjoy the scanty means Of
living hard.
| Another set of teachers. who like
wise have failed to discover what the
matter is. say 'vote out the accursed
traffic. and the highway to prosperi-
lty and happiness will be opened
VIII that class or any person Of il
lcondescend 10 tell us how wiping Out
the liquor traffic will bring prosperi
fy and the happiness Of a competence
OF worldly things TO the millions who
do not drink now and never have,
and yet whose earnings are insult
ficient to live upon in decency and
comfort! Will some one please tell
us how wiping out the liquor traffic
is going to enable the non-drinking
millions without homes or employ
ment &c properly shelter. feed, ciothe,
and educate their children, that they,
the future citizens OF the republic
may be enabled toproperly discharge
the duties of free men and women,
and transmit 70 their posterity the
blessings Of an enlightened people
and the boon of free government.
Both these classes may be honest
in their belief. and yet wrong in
their conclusions. In Nebraska this
kind of personal liberty is SO album
dant that whoever has the means,
may obtain all of it he wants at any
corner grocery by the quart, gal
lon or barrel. And yet the lack of
| prosperous times and the evidence
that the personal liberty which liquor
dealers pirate about, is not the trouble
is told in the Woman's World Of Chi
cago, which publishes letter from. /,
lady residing there which says:
Corn is only eight 10 eighteen cents
Il bushel here, and hot one farm that
| / know Of but what hit. Il mortgage
| Oh il ready to snatch iy away II in
mediate payment il demanded d,
God. hurry up the good times before
desperationrurns to..eyastation. We
can not get coal here for less than
fifteen or eighteen cents busheI. 50
/ the great golden ears of corn are made
| fuel of. until all the air is laden with
/ delicious fragrance and we watch the
free white smoke curl upward from
! the chimney tops and in il see the
CLEAN af hungry faces, and the fam
ine-shrunken hands Of the little chill
L dTtIl Jul III OlIas w
with the parching corn.
| Now We will go to Maine. the state
where Neal Dow and prohibition
have held undisputed sway for more
than tori. years. and see if the PEG.
pie there. are prosperous Our neigh
Dor of the Times says Mr. i'owderl.
| is a prohibitionist, hence it will roi
accuse him of mistating facts in the
interest of personal liberty" In q
,late address at Denver Dr. POWDER.
/. thus reported:
He then described a
|scene in Maine, where he saw chill.
dren waiting ina freezing rain before
q factory gate for admission to n
place where they can earn living
All were poorly clad and many were
| barefooted. IN the evening he saw
them come out into Inc rain again.
There was another place he visited.
That was the public -.lonl, and there
he saw many empty benches.
In Maine the home of Blaine, the
hon bed of fanatacism, the prohibit
ton tub has been thrown TO the 'har-
pooned, robbed and xronged public
for more than forty years, and even
their little children who should be
! in bed oY in school work eleven hours
| Il day In ihe choking dust Of fac
tory for the poor pittane. that will
rob hunger Of its terriers. Little tod
| dlers trudging To the factory in the
dawn of morning when they should
.t;ll liz i'm bed. toilng painfully